Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Mather, Kendall A; Saucier, Gerard; Naudé, Luzelle; Florence, Maria; Adonis, Tracey-Ann; Shino, Elizabeth N; Asatsa, Stephen; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena; Bächlin, Lea Z M; Condon, David M (2025). The cross-cultural big two: A culturally decentered theoretical and measurement model for personality traits. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128(5):1181-1208.
• Rotzinger, Julia S; Jensen, Lene Arnett; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle (2025). Ubuntu in Namibia and Kenya: How Emerging Adults Live an Essential African Value Today. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 56(2):194-213.
• Uugwanga, Selma N; Naudé, Luzelle; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle (2025). Becoming an Ovambo Adult: Growing Into Agentic Communalism in Sub-Saharan Africa. Psychological Science, 36(1):55-65.
• Uskul, Ayse K; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Bernardo, Allan B I; González, Roberto; Kende, Anna; Laher, Sumaya; Lášticová, Barbara; Saab, Rim; Salas, Gonzalo; Singh, Purnima; Zeinoun, Pia; Norenzayan, Ara; Chao, Melody M; Shoda, Yuichi; Cooper, M Lynne (2024). Challenges and Opportunities for Psychological Research in the Majority World. Collabra: Psychology, 10(1):123703.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Asatsa, Stephen; Shino, Elizabeth N; Naudé, Luzelle; Laher, Sumaya; Hassem, Tasneem; Florence, Maria; Adonis, Tracey-Ann; Uugwanga, Selma N; Rotzinger, Julia S; Hofmann, Daniel; Makunda, John; Botha, Casey; Murangi, Annelisa; Shirima, Catherine M (2024). Lifespan research in Kenya, Namibia, and South Africa: Cohort profile of the Africa long life study. Personality Science, 5:1-15.
• Adler, Jonathan M; Bogart, Kathleen R; Frantz, Cindy McPherson; Salter, Phia S; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle (2024). Two Years Into the Next Chapter at PSPR. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 28(1):3-10.
• Furrer, Anja; Hofmann, Daniel; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle (2024). Talking Mental Health with Kenyan Youth: Cognitive Interviews on the International Mental Health Assessment. PsyArXiv Preprints kyb3x, University of Zurich.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Marshall, Julie; Scalise, Kathleen (2023). The International Mental Health Assessment: Validation of an Efficient Screening Inventory. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1):74546.
• Florence, Maria; Adonis, Tracey-Ann; Botha, Casey; Mpisane, Noluthando; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Naudé, Luzelle (2023). An international longitudinal research project investigating the psychological development of young adults in South Africa: managing attrition. In: 17th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, Spain, 6 März 2023 - 8 März 2023. IATED, 1986-1992.
• Claudius, Milena; Shino, Elizabeth N; Job, Sylvanus; Hofmann, Daniel; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle (2022). Still Standing Inside: A Local Idiom Related to Trauma among Namibian Speakers of Khoekhoegowab. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(21):14323.
• Toscanelli, Cecilia; Shino, Elizabeth; Robinson, Sarah L; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle (2022). Religiousness worldwide: translation of the Duke University Religion Index into 20 languages and validation across 27 nations. Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 4:13.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Saucier, Gerard; Rotzinger, Julia S (2022). Absolutism, Relativism, and Universalism in Personality Traits Across Cultures: The Case of the Big Five. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 53(7-8):935-956.
• Jonauskaite, Domicele; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Müller, Lauriane; Mohr, Christine (2021). What does your favourite colour say about your personality? Not much. Personality Science, 2:e6297.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Job, Sylvanus; Shino, Elizabeth N; Robinson, Sarah L; Saucier, Gerard (2021). ǂŪsigu: A mixed-method lexical study of character description in Khoekhoegowab. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 121(6):1258-1283.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Saucier, Gerard; Shino, Elizabeth N; Job, Sylvanus (2021). The Khoekhoegowab Personality Inventory: The Comparative Validity of a Locally Derived Measure of Traits. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:694205.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Toscanelli, Cecilia; Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen (2021). What American psychology needs most is the majority world: Reply to Webster et al. (2021). American Psychologist, 76(5):806.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Toscanelli, Cecilia; Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen (2021). The neglected 95% revisited: Is American psychology becoming less American?. American Psychologist, 76(1):116-129.
• Rossier, Jérôme; Atitsogbe, Kokou Amenyona; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle (2021). Évaluation de la personnalité dans un contexte multilingue et multiculturel. In: Rossier, Jérôme. L'évaluation psychologique en contexte multilingue et multiculturel : Questions et enjeux. Bruxelles: Éditions Mardaga, 205-221.
• Saucier, Gerard; Iurino, Kathryn; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle (2020). Comparing predictive validity in a community sample: High–dimensionality and traditional domain–and–facet structures of personality variation. European Journal of Personality, 34(6):1120-1137.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Saucier, Gerard; Ole-Kotikash, Leonard; Payne, Doris (2020). Personality structure in east and west Africa: Lexical studies of personality in Maa and Supyire-Senufo. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119(5):1132-1152.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Saucier, Gerard; Srivastava, Sanjay; Flournoy, John C; Costello, Cory K (2019). Ethics-relevant values in adulthood: Longitudinal findings from the life and time study. Journal of Personality, 87(6):1119-1135.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Rossier, Jérôme (2019). Agreeableness, antagonism, and mental health across cultures. In: Miller, Joshua D; Lynam, Donald R. The Handbook of Antagonism. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 97-111.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Saucier, Gerard; Flournoy, John C; Srivastava, Sanjay (2019). Ethics-Relevant Values as Antecedents of Personality Change: Longitudinal Findings from the Life and Time Study. Collabra: Psychology, 5(1):52.
• Udayar, Shagini; Fiori, Marina; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Rossier, Jérôme (2018). Investigating the link between trait emotional intelligence, career indecision, and self-perceived employability: The role of career adaptability. Personality and Individual Differences, 135:7-12.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Harwood, Jessica M; Friedman, Sarah; Azocar, Francisca; Watson, L Amy; Xu, Haiyong; Ettner, Susan L (2018). The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Evaluation Study: Impact on Nonquantitative Treatment Limits for Specialty Behavioral Health Care. Health Services Research, 53(6):4584-4608.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle (2018). Personality and mental health treatment: Traits as predictors of presentation, usage, and outcome. Psychological Assessment, 30(7):967-977.
• Friedman, Sarah A; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Azocar, Francisca; Xu, Haiyong; Harwood, Jessica M; Ong, Michael K; Johnson, Laura Lambert; Ettner, Susan L (2018). The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Evaluation Study: Impact on Mental Health Financial Requirements among Commercial “Carve-In” Plans. Health Services Research, 53(1):366-388.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Friedman, Sarah A; Azocar, Francisca; Harwood, Jessica M; Ettner, Susan L (2017). The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) Evaluation Study: Impact on Quantitative Treatment Limits. Psychiatric Services, 68(5):435-442.
• Harwood, Jessica M; Azocar, Francisca; Thalmayer, Amber; Xu, Haiyong; Ong, Michael K; Tseng, Chi-Hong; Wells, Kenneth B; Friedman, Sarah; Ettner, Susan L (2017). The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Evaluation Study: Impact on Specialty Behavioral Health Care Utilization and Spending Among Carve-In Enrollees. Medical Care, 55(2):164-172.
• Ettner, Susan L; M. Harwood, Jessica; Thalmayer, Amber; Ong, Michael K; Xu, Haiyong; Bresolin, Michael J; Wells, Kenneth B; Tseng, Chi-Hong; Azocar, Francisca (2016). The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act evaluation study: Impact on specialty behavioral health utilization and expenditures among “carve-out” enrollees. Journal of Health Economics, 50:131-143.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle (2015). Alternative Models of the Outcome Questionnaire-45. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 31(2):120-130.
• Saucier, Gerard; Kenner, Judith; Iurino, Kathryn; Bou Malham, Philippe; Chen, Zhuo; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; et al (2015). Cross-Cultural Differences in a Global “Survey of World Views". Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 46(1):53-70.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Saucier, Gerard (2014). The Questionnaire Big Six in 26 Nations: Developing Cross–Culturally Applicable Big Six, Big Five and Big Two Inventories. European Journal of Personality, 28(5):482-496.
• Saucier, Gerard; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Payne, Doris L; Carlson, Robert; Sanogo, Lamine; Ole-Kotikash, Leonard; Church, A Timothy; Katigbak, Marcia S; Somer, Oya; Szarota, Piotr; Szirmák, Zsofia; Zhou, Xinyue (2014). A Basic Bivariate Structure of Personality Attributes Evident Across Nine Languages. Journal of Personality, 82(1):1-14.
• Saucier, Gerard; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Bel-Bahar, Tarik S (2014). Human attribute concepts: Relative ubiquity across twelve mutually isolated languages. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107(1):199-216.
• Saucier, Gerard; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle (2013). Cultural, Contextual, and Measurement Challenges for the Paradigm of Personality Science. In: Christiansen, N; Tett, R. The Handbook of Personality at Work. New York: Routledge, 821-836.
• Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Saucier, Gerard; Eigenhuis, Annemarie (2011). Comparative validity of Brief to Medium-Length Big Five and Big Six Personality Questionnaires. Psychological Assessment, 23(4):995-1009.